Edward Bliss Foote

Edward Bliss Foote was born in Cleveland on February 20, 1829.^[4]

In 1858, he published Medical Common Sense, which contained frank discussion of sexual health for the general public.^[5] He was subsequently convicted under the Comstock Act of 1873 and forced to remove information about birth control from the book.^[5] He was a co-founder of the Free Speech League.

He died in Larchmont, New York on October 5, 1906.^[6]

• Medical Common Sense: Applied to the Causes, Prevention and Cure of Chronic Diseases and Unhappiness in Marriage (1864)
• Science in story : Sammy Tubbs, the boy doctor, and "Sponsie," the troublesome monkey (1874)
• Plain Home Talk, Embracing Medical Common Sense (1880)
• A Fable of the spider and the bees : verified by the facts and press and pulpit comments which should command the serious attention of every American citizen (1881)
• Dr. Foote's replies to the Alphites : giving some cogent reasons for believing that sexual continence is not conducive to health (1883)
• The radical remedy in social science, or, Borning better babies through regulating reproduction by controlling conception : an earnest essay on pressing problems (1886) - Written by his son, E.B. Foote Junior.
• Dr. Foote's Hand-Book of Health-Hints and Ready Recipes (1888)
• Dr. Foote's Sexual physiology for the young (1892)
• Dr. Foote's new book on health and disease : with recipes, including sexology (1903)
• Dr. Foote's new plain home talk on love, marriage, and parentage. A fair and earnest discussion of human, social, and marital relations (1904)
• Dr. Foote's home cyclopedia of popular medical, social and sexual science : embracing his new book on health and disease ... also embracing Plain home talk, on love, marriage, and parentage ... (1906)
• Human Wonders Freaks and Diseases (1892)